“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
Art
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
FailureAll Quotes by John Keats
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Nature“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
Beauty“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
Death“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Intelligence“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Beauty“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
Imagination“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.”
Beauty“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
Valentinesday“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
Beauty“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
Failure“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”
Beauty“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.”
Music“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
Imagination“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
Poetry“You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
Great“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”
Love“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
Experience“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Poetry“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
Nature